WHAT'S going on with this KOSA bill?

www.cnbc.com/2023/10/24/bipartisan-group-of-ags-sue-meta-for-addictive-features.html
finance.yahoo.com/news/41-states-sue-meta-alleging-181017830.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/technology/states-lawsuit-children-instagram-facebook.html

Latest news about Meta being sued by more than THIRTY (yes, 30) states for endangering children. While not completely related to KOSA, it definitely plays a role in the situation regarding KOSA.

Agreed. I don't get why the same people who constantly claim they "don't co-parent with the government" seem to be the same ones demanding that the government essentially co-parent with them to "protect the chhillldreennnn" (school book and public library bans, constant attacks on teachers, internet ID laws, social media censorship, etc.)
And again, it boggles my mind that even the most religious/conservative people in the 90s and 00s weren't over there demanding that the internet be censored for children, though TBF maybe they were too busy whining about movies and TV shows and video games (a few court internet court cases in the 90s were anomalies). 

www.theverge.com/2023/11/14/23960956/meta-google-tiktok-snap-social-media-addiction-lawsuits

Related news.

………. We. Are. So. Fucked. 

Well boys, looks like we’ll have to immigrate to Canada or something to use the internet free of restrictions. I don’t know shit about how this stuff works, just that the KOSA bill is not good.




It’s worse because I’m a minor, so I am affected by this. Who’s gonna inherit my lost media searches now…?

Alright kevin, don’t panic. They may be what is essentially undoing the internet but I’m sure the whole world can’t be in on this right? Just gotta run away to either Mexico or Canada… oh who am I kidding? They won’t allow runaways through the Canadian border. 


Breathe Deeply. Breathe Deeper. Breathe with a vengeance. Everything should be ok…..

(I’m kinda panicking rn)

Hopefully can AND will still die. As another poster mentioned here, this is not the first time that such bills have been proposed, and every one of them (except for COPPA) has been voted down, dropped, dissolved etc. AKAIK. This news is just saying that there is a push to get the thing voted on, not that the vote will happen, or that it will succeed. I hate to say it, but at this point, much like pharmacy lobby $$$ vs. reproductive rights, I kinda hope enough lawmakers can be bribed by enough big social media corporations to stop this tomfoolery. Hopefully. As awful as it sounds, maybe Citizens United can actually work in our favor this time. 

It's so baffling to me that we are wasting so much time and money on essentially restricting people's freedom of speech and privacy. I mean we have literal WARS and a government shutdown debacle going on right now and this is what's important to our lawmakers???!!!! Kids??? How about parents PARENT their kids and leave the rest of us alone

Yeah.

The possibility of the bill being passed is still kinda high though as far as I’m aware, so the worry is very much still there. 





I’ll let you all know when we shall start panicking. We’ll be shivering our timbers like none before us.

Hopefully……